Abstract
Sero-epidemiology of Contagious Ecthyma Based on Detection of IgG Antibody in Selected Sheep and Goats Farms in Malaysia
Highlights
Contagious ecthyma (CE) is an emerging, infectious and zoonotic viral disease of sheep and goat that is May 2018 | Volume 6 | Issue 5 | Page 219 caused by CE virus belonging to the poxviridae family according to the classification of the international committee on taxonomy of virus (ICTV) (Tedla et al, 2018)
Farm level seroprevalence of CE virus showed that 9.1% (1/11), 0.0% (0/12) (Farm B), 25% (5/20) (Farm C), 23.1% (6/26) (Farm D) and 4.76% (1/21) (Farm E) of all the goats sampled were seropositive for CE virus
Risk Factors The seroprevalence of CE based on sex showed that 30.8% (4/13) of male sheep were seropositive for IgG antibodies against CE than female sheep 9.1% (7/77)
Summary
Contagious ecthyma (CE) is an emerging, infectious and zoonotic viral disease of sheep and goat that is May 2018 | Volume 6 | Issue 5 | Page 219 caused by CE virus belonging to the poxviridae family according to the classification of the international committee on taxonomy of virus (ICTV) (Tedla et al, 2018). (Abdullah et al, 2015a; Fleming et al, 2015; Sadiq et al, 2017; Tedla et al, 2018) It has a wide host range affecting sheep, goats and other wild animals such as alpacas, camels and reindeer. Marketability of sheep and goats for trading or slaughtering for meat purposes declines due to the nasty dermatological lesion.The disease is endemic among small ruminants in Malaysia and has previously been reported (Sadiq et al, 2017). The methodis less cumbersome, cheap and the samples do not haveto be purified prior to analysis (Sum et al, 2017)
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